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Sharon Mazer is an academic in New Zealand who is professor of theatre and performance studies at Auckland University of Technology. She is known for her book, Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle, and as a researcher of popular performance.[1]

Academic career

After completing a BA at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1977, Mazer worked for some years as a theatre director. She returned to study, graduating with an MA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 and then moving to New York to study at Columbia University for a MPhil in 1989 and a PhD in 1991.[2]

Mazer moved to New Zealand in 1994 to lecture at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. She joined Auckland University of Technology in 2014, where she was promoted to full professor in November 2019.[3]

Selected works

Books

Articles

References

  1. ^ "Sharon Mazer". Auckland University of Technology. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Professor Sharon Mazer". Auckland University of Technology. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ "New Professors and Associate Professors". Auckland University of Technology. 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 12 February 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2020.

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